Reading in the Victorian ERA
Famous Writers and Stories
Victorian Literature I.
Victorian Literature II.
100
By the end of the Victorian Age, most people could do this because of better education.
What is reading?
100
This author wrote about Oliver Twist and other children living in poverty.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
The name of the most famous male novelist in the Victorian Era
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
The dominant writing form at the beginning of the Victorian Era
What is the poem?
200
Books became cheaper because of this improvement in technology.
What is printing?
200
This famous detective appeared in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
200
What are the themes of gothic stories?
power, confinement, isolation, supernatural, fear, mystery (and others)
200
Two traits of Gothic literature
What is, extreme weather and elements or violence and horror?
300
This type of story was often published in parts, making readers wait for the next piece.
What is a serial story?
300
This book by Charles Darwin explained the idea of evolution.
What is On the Origin of Species?
300
What was a popular genre in Victorian era?
Poetry - writers experimented with other way of writing it, such as narrative poetry and developed a new form called a dramatic monologue
300
What did The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde make fun of?
It is a satire of Victorian ways, makes fun of "honorable" characters. The main theme is the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage.
400
The Victorian Age is often called "The Age of ______" because so many people loved reading.
What is reading?
400
This writer created Jane Eyre
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
400
Name three male Victorian authors.
Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Robert Luis Stevenson (and others)
400
What is the real name of the author of Middlemarch?
Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Elliot.
500
Writers used this exciting ending to make readers want the next part of a story.
What is a cliffhanger?
500
These cheap, exciting books about crime and mystery were called "penny ______."
What are dreadfuls?
500
Name three female Victorian authors.
Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliot (and others)
500
What is the real name of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Charles Lutwidge Dodson - better known as Lewis Carroll, a british writer and mathematician.